Improvement in oil-cans



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No.1711976. Patented Jan.11,-1876 Atfa rn e3.

N1 PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A. JOHN BELL, or ASHL'AND, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT m OIL-CANS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,976, dated January 11, 1876; application filed December 17, 1875.

To all whom it may concern: forms the lower section of the cap or cover of Be it known that I, A. JOHN BELL, of Ash the can, and its pressure is constantly exland, in the county of Boyd and State of Ken- .erted to keep the plate B well up to the neck tucky, have invented certain Improvements of the can,and thus prevent air from coming in Oil Gans, of which the following is a full, in contact with the oil and forming gas. B clear, and exact description, reference being is another dish-shaped circular. plate, having had to the accompanying drawing and the a hole, I), cut through its center in which to letters of reference marked thereon, making insert a funnel when the can is to be replenpart of this specification, in'whichished. .The plates B B are connected by Figure 1 represents a side view of my can, means of guide-rods h It. On top of the plate parts being removed. B is an inverted U-shaped wire, upon which The object of my invention is to so construct .the funn. l rests when the same is inserted to an oil-can that thereshall beno dangerofexplofill the can, the plate B being pressed down sion from careless use, and also that the waste until it rests upon the neck of the can. D is of the oil fromevaporation shall be securely the spout, which is formed with an enlarged guarded against. section, 1), at its point of connection with the The nature ofmy invention consists in formbody of the can. In this section D works a ing the stopper of two dish-shaped circular ball-valve, 0, whose tendency is always to plates, connected by guide bars or rods, the rest in its seat unless the can is tilted forward same being held in place by means of a spring to let the oil be discharged. H is the handle having one of its hearings on a plate or bar of the can, constructed in the usual manner. extending across the inside of the can, and What I claim as new, and desire to secure also in closing the orifice where the spout by Letters Patent of the United States, isjoins the can by means of a ball-valve, as An oil-can consisting of a cylinder, plates will be more fully hereinafter described. B B, connected by guide-rods h h, spring E,

The construction and operation of my inbar F, spout D, having an enlarged section, vention are as follows: A is the can, which. I), and ball-valve C, the same constructed is made in the usual manner, except that the and arranged to operate substantially as despout is enlarged at its point of connection scribed, as and for the purpose specified. with the can, for purposes which will be here In testimony whereof I have signed my after explained. Across the can, and about name to this specification in the presence of the junction of the cylinder with the conical two subscribing witnesses. portion of the can, extends a bar or plate,F, A. JOHN BELL. on which rests the spring E. The other end Witnesses: of this spring E has its bearing on the under J NO. F. HAGER, side of the dish-shaped circular plate B, which I. M. GIBBONS. 

